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The Magellanic Mopra Assessment (MAGMA) is a high angular resolution CO mapping survey of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds using the Mopra Telescope. Here we report on the basic physical properties of…

We aim to better understand how the spatial structure of molecular clouds is governed by turbulence. For that, we study the large-scale spatial distribution of low density molecular gas and search for characteristic length scales. We employ…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 N. Schneider , S. Bontemps , R. Simon , V. Ossenkopf , C. Federrath , R. Klessen , F. Motte , P. Andre , J. Stutzki , C. Brunt

We present molecular line mapping of the Giant Molecular Cloud G1.6-0.025, which is located at the high longitude end of the Central Molecular Zone of our Galaxy. We assess the degree of star formation activity in that region using several…

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The cold molecular gas in contemporary galaxies is structured in discrete cloud complexes. These giant molecular clouds (GMCs), with $10^4$-$10^7$ solar masses and radii of 5-100 parsecs, are the seeds of star formation. Highlighting the…

In this work we use models of molecular clouds (MC), and non-LTE radiative transfer calculations, to obtain a theoretical calibration of the relation between LTE 13CO column density and true column density in MCs. The cloud models consist…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Paolo Padoan , Mika Juvela , John Bally , AAke Nordlund

Kinematic distances to 750 molecular clouds identified in the 13CO J=1-0 Boston University-Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory Galactic Ring Survey (BU-FCRAO GRS) are derived assuming the Clemens rotation curve of the Galaxy. The…

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We investigate the relation between star formation rate (SFR) and gas surface densities in Galactic star forming regions using a sample of YSOs and massive clumps. Our YSO sample consists of objects located in 20 molecular clouds from the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Amanda Heiderman , Neal J. Evans , Lori E. Allen , Tracy Huard , Mark Heyer

Analyzing the (l, b, Vlsr) data cube of 13CO(J=1-0) line emission obtained by Bally et al, we have investigated the molecular gas distribution and kinematics in the central +/-1 deg (150 pc) region of the Galaxy. We have applied the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Yoshiaki SOFUE

We explore the relation between the stellar mass surface density and the mass surface density of molecular hydrogen gas in twelve nearby molecular clouds that are located at $<$1.5 kpc distance. The sample clouds span an order of magnitude…

We present 12CO(1->0) observations of 45 giant molecular clouds in M33 made with the BIMA array. The observations have a linear resolution of 20 pc, sufficient to measure the sizes of most GMCs in the sample. We place upper limits on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Erik Rosolowsky , Greg Engargiola , Richard Plambeck , Leo Blitz

We present $1''.4$ (98 pc) resolution ALMA observations of $^{13}$CO($J$=1-0), C$^{18}$O($J$=1-0), CS($J$=2-1) and CH$_3$OH($J_K$=$2_K$-$1_K$) molecular lines in the central $1'$ (4.2 kpc) region of NGC 1068 to study the physical and…

Recent studies have indicated that the HCN-to-CO(J=1-0) and HCO+-to-HCN(J=1-0) ratios are significantly different between galaxies with AGN (active galactic nucleus) and SB (starburst) signatures. In order to study the molecular gas…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Krips , R. Neri , S. Garcia-Burillo , S. Martin , F. Combes , J. Gracia-Carpio , A. Eckart

A population of molecular clouds with a significantly greater scale height than that of Giant Molecular Clouds has been identified by examining maps of the latitude distribution of the $^{12}CO(1-0)$ emission in the first quadrant of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Sangeeta Malhotra

As the first step of a multi-wavelength investigation into the relationship between young stellar clusters and their environment we present fully-sampled maps in the J=1--0 lines of 13CO and C18O and the J=2--1 line of C18O for a selected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Naomi A. Ridge , T. L. Wilson , S. T. Megeath , L. E. Allen , P. C. Myers

We present the first statistical survey of the properties of the 12CO(1-0) and 12CO(3-2) line emission from the nuclei of a nearly complete subsample of 60 infrared (IR) luminous galaxies selected from SCUBA Local Universe Galaxy Survey…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Lihong Yao , E. R. Seaquist , Nario Kuno , Loretta Dunne

A survey is presented of the Galactic plane in the J=1-0 transition of (13)CO. About 73,000 spectra were obtained with the 7 m telescope at Bell Laboratories over a ten-year period. The coverage of survey is (l, b) = (-5 to 117, -1 to +1),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Youngung Lee , A. A. Stark , H. G. Kim , D. Moon

We present a catalogue of Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) in M33, extracted from cold dust continuum emission. Our GMCs are identified by computing dendrograms. We measure the spatial distribution of these clouds, and characterise their dust…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-31 Thomas G. Williams , Walter K. Gear , Matthew W. L. Smith

Different studies have reported a power-law mass-size relation $M \propto R^q$ for ensembles of molecular clouds. In the case of nearby clouds, the index of the power-law $q$ is close to 2. However, for clouds spread all over the Galaxy,…